I’ll be interested to see how Oprah’s “What I Know For Sure” columns vary when the theme of the issue is the same. Will it be a repeat? Will her views change over time? We’ll find out when I go backwards to look at the other beauty issue.
This time though, she thinks she’s figured out that beauty is not her. That may not make sense, but she says that your spirit and personality are not your body. Mostly she’s talking about her endless struggle with weight and the guilt and frustration she’s had in trying to control it.
She includes a long quote by Marianne Williamson, a spiritual teacher, which ends, “In order to lose weight on a permanent basis, you want a shift in your belief about who and what you are. This is the miracle you seek.”
The interesting thing here is that Oprah equates beauty with body image, and to that end, being thin. Yes, body image is part of it, and I understand that the “beauty revolution” going on at O this month is to think differently about our bodies, but body image isn’t always a fat/thin issue.
Still, I’m guessing that if you don’t like your nose, if you shift a belief about it, maybe you’ll be able to like that too.
